GRAND RAPIDS -- Police say a 17-year-old acquitted last month in a 2010 murder was arrested in a Tuesday drug bust and believed to have been carrying a handgun.

Sanqua Cummings was arrested with another person as Grand Rapids Police were conducting surveillance at the corner of Franklin Street SE and Neland Avenue, a corner that neighbors had identified as an area where drug trafficking occurs.

A jury found Cummings not guilty last month in the October 2010 death of 17-year-old Bobby Hughes.

Grand Rapids Police Capt. Eric Payne said a surveillance team looking for drug activity was about to clear the corner of Neland Avenue and Franklin Street on Tuesday when they saw two people engaged in what appeared to be a drug deal.

Police moved in and the suspects ran. Officers arrested both people and later discovered that one, who allegedly had marijuana, was Sanqua Cummings.

Payne said officers also found a handgun near a fence that Cummings had apparently scaled as officers chased him.

Cummings is charged in Grand Rapids District Court with delivery of marijuana, resisting and obstructing police and failure to obey an officer's command.